The Sun. — London, England, 1809-01-03 00:00:00

. , lion ii.irl (a. has been asserts)secure all the objectsof falling in with Marshal .Sutat.T, Who ha s d. been Which were proposed in the Expedition. If it did . ordered to make himself master of teon and Zaino• not, it .vas not what his Majesty was entitled to ea- - ... ~ „,, , „ of • • • :, ad ta. iartaauter-eaenerat i..;llAttLEs STEW/AT., with' part peat trans tne re;ative situation . the tWu artalt:S. ,- ~. 0 I humbly coneeke it 10 have beelt errunc ,, US•tiahiosof.llie lat -I Light Drigoorisahad surpriledandlaken a • • a re isVJ tiv , Fq. • regard theemancipaltorr of Portugal irolt 1 iie , reliti" a gamehment of cavalry and infantry at R aval, with as the sole or the principal object of the expeditibta . ' ~ ' . .., , - ~ ~ about o,ooot. in value, of camel], a Inch the French . Upon whatever territory we contend with the French, it must bee prominent object in the strug- - had co Iped.' They had also taken a patrole o l au gle to destroy their resources, amt to narrow ., their ear'ffice wid, c'a Dragoons." , weans of iniutiriga us, or those whose cause ,We are i a.---• hopes at the held .out in the Bulletin should be supporting. This .4eetns to have been so little con- ... littered in' the Conaention, that the-tertns appear to I :realized., that is; tf-Str JOHN Mpotta &tidal(' tui for. have extricated Jonas ariny :frtitn a situation of in- i -tunata•enoogh fa fall in With Marshal SoLTLT, the unite distress, in which it was wholly out of . play, 4 ~. • army winch I.3lfoiAPAitTr.:- ilea pushed forward to and to have br o ught it, in a state -of ..entire equip- Inentaaintoinimediate currency', in a qu:ittcr iOO, , . Madrid :Will be placed in; (nest dangerous sitiaatioo. where it must interfere with out most urgent and - 4 ,nr i libiatlet:cot of Soutar would leave the ‘vhole. North interesting concerns. 7 ''• ,' Ir*ofigl)ail.topen- to our Troops, end the French Army Had it been impratlicable to reduce the Fre.M.4lol.!'ate army to lay down its arms unconditionally, .a still at ; o f si4dria off must either fall back, or be entirely cut obligation not to serve fill a specified tune, aniglik n ffotnlits supplies and reinforeernents. li . re position have b een i ns i a t e d u p o n, or Belleisle mighthave heel ofolit Armies, accordi t tg to the last accomits, we re,. prescribed as the place aawhiCh they should be land, ~ I • . „ •• a • ••1 We/believe • nearly•aa fullows.:---The British Army td, in order to prevent the. probability of their rein, . a . ' forcing (at least for 'a long, time) the armies employed . i reaalted front a little to 111 . 4 Staithward .of 'Voro, to for th e bubjug;ition of Spain. Perhapi a stronger I Benevento: The Marquis 1) -LA ItusiaNa was at consideratiou than the merit of those terms presents , . Leon. .Suoaia as stated aome days ie.() was at itself. -Opieion relative" to - the British art:is was a , of tliv high importance, as it .ntight infltience .Salthina. if; iiiobcaietice to the orders oh BLJONA itie CoiltlilCLlCe of the Spaniards, or iavitethe nations" PAItTE, he Should advance to attack. Gallicia, he groaning wider Aire yoke of Fenice, to appeal to Olt, v \ vii I- either fall in . , with the British Army, . which ( ="nu)", and cooperate with it for their deliverance. t .• ThZaadvataages Ought, thesabre, to iiiiVe becu tnae * . O.'„ativiet)c . ing for , the purilose .of 'meeting him„ ite m usually great, which should be deemed sullicieot Or' lie will place himself between the British to balanee the objeetion ofgranting to a very interior Artny and' the sea, in a situationtfroin which array, hopeless in circutnstatices, and Woken in spirit, suchtermsiii might argue, tnat notwithstanding its it will be impossible for hint to reireitt. Per tihtYirlty.iii number:, it was still foroidahle to its only apprehensiotais, that when Marshal Soil Lis is ' " 3 °". NU aUVant,iges beetned to have. been g ained ' apprized of. the junction, between Sir JON e i\lOollE th at W9eid i)o't have equalV followed from torcing and Sir DAv ID Batro, lie will immedi:itely fall , the en emy to a more marked submission. The gain of time as to sending ,succours into Spain cannot , c oack. . . 4 be admitted as a plea, la: cause it appeara that ho er , - Some of the Letters 'from Corunna state, that a arraogetneots for the reception of our troops ha I , . . ' division of the Armyofi-nm Portugal, whi c h tyres ad • Spain li:id been undertaken _previous to the Convecta. . Con ; aed tins is without reasoning on subseque,9,l,,; : yencitig to aeinfurije Sir Jona Mboxe, had arrived facts. Tao Convention? in Egypt, winch has beete,..,ieatl'iUdad ituderigo, and we have very little doubt of advanced as a parallel 0 case, appears to• the ire. ' ' - . applicable,N t a b e yond the dislodgement th liana of this statement; because we know that , 0 oeje . ',cif the french fruni Egypt' was Iltal.e in quas- itntnediately upon theatriv4dufSir JoliN CH ADUCK, at lion• In the present instance the operation oft tisbon,he ipive orders for neatly the whole of the Bri the cape ta itto upon the ail'airs of Spain was a con.- j - - . fish forces iii Portugal to march for Spain. In addiar aideration of,ptimary interest ; and in that view the inevitable effeet of some of r the articles otters itself !ion to this we know Una reintoreentents .to a• very. II Ily mind as liable to material objection. I trust lingkt amount, are on the point of sailing fr o m thin that theseareasOns will vindicate me from the cletrae ``'Cooed'. L. o ill wahat a y. very short time we shall (4 Pre , amption, in maintaining an °pitfall contiti4sk6 History t:,that professed by so Malty most respek.`ttit.' .--Pve: ti'n' la'gest 13 ' j'aib Ar'llY in Spain, that ever hle otiieei•s ; for, even it the reasona be esae . tiliiiiikqrri(va l s before sellt hunt this Cut:tory—an army of be earoneotia, if they are conclusive to my mind ( 14)16 'i%reett fib and 70,000 meta nulSt conscientiously affirm them to be), it is a 66-1 t'. cassiuy cons uence that I must disapprove the-Cott- , 'M ara intelligence from the, centre and South of eq '• velition. . , Sp a in is . 5u very confused, 'and, in some iostatices, ,D;cernber la, dog.. MozitA, General. contradiaory, that it is difficult, if not impossible, to form an accurate notion of the* position either of the French or Spaniards. Even with respea to the occupation of Madrid by the French, the statements do not agree. According to some accounts, 'the French weer" driven . out. of Ma4triii .gruAt slaughter; according to others, they never actually took possession of Madrid, but merely-Mennted guard ;at the gates during the day, aod.contented themselves with the'occupation of the Retiro The latter account is . ,probably not tar from the 14&, as, from the experience which Buot.4trotTc has,had of the citizens of Madiid, he would, not like - to trust his - troops in small parties among them. But the . . points upon which ,we are the most anxious to obtain- information are, the movements of the .oriftehi-arrny subsequent to the laCcounts of the 1, st Ii 111etin. .4tAiNAPARTE, 110tWitklgtanding IliS' successes, is • placed in a singular and critical situation. In his front and on his left flank there are three..baffle armies, viz. those of Generals CASTANO4,,MORLit, and PALLAYOX and in his rear, there is a Combined British and Spa 44rny of iibove sixty thousand men. So that fad h is nearly surrounded; and if, as we hcfnie , A observed, any serious disaster should happen to the Artuy of Soomr, it will require all the dexterity of titt#ONAPAKIE to extricate himself i from the dAtt gerouli situation in which he has' placed himself. 1 0!ttet 9 s have been received from Lisbon, pf u tg%, Isth, ;which state, .that every thingin Portugakmatv Cot onirtn a state of entire tranquillny, but that!i tti t ' people had be,,,an to make the most aatve exertions-1 for their defence. Letters have also been receistetrfrom Cadiz, thti putpotc:q...vohith, is highly utter .sting, The t;iolt st renuouk,exertions are likewise making. in. than part of Spain . to provide all pOssible means' of .delence against the column 'Enemy. thu Captain ! General hastsoleronly taken an oath , before the public never to , surrender the toviiP i lit navy, Ia thort every thing attests the zeal and lp c erilt With which. it is called forth.. ;.,tt Wit have more than otice suggested to our .11eade ers th e received Corunna Papers to the propriety (f receiving with . a considerable Ws this morning r de gree of caution the' unituthentiCated repOrts which 24th. They contain a variety of reports respeeling arriv e t r o ut Spain, because in the 'present state el the defeat of the French at Madrid, for whieh, we tiiat cou ntr y it is obvious .that a number of une fear, there is nut the slightest foundlition. ' The fol 7 founded rumours must be continually in circUlatien.' lowing; are the Articles to which we allude':-- : : ' Yesterday, soon after the arrival of the Messenger C_Ont/ttltia, Dec. 16, TEN O'CL O CK, P.M.—LA w as knew% it was very confidently stated, an d ge ,, Courier lets arrivest this evening from the Supreme, ile rnily betieved, that a battle of a very decisive' , Junta at Truxillo, in Estratnadura, and we are con !Mere k id • ta .- K . en pl ace b e t ween i h e B t i t i s h, and fidently assured that the substance of the, dispatches p r -melt A rr ai is4, .i n which the latter were defeated' I brought by., the Courier is, that after repeated , 1. ' with immense 1 0 4. • The l e tter - uPon i which this , attac k er from the ad to the 7th ins ta n t , t h e - re port was fuended even went the, length of givin4 0 were coinpletely overpower e d by the inlet -0 i Ifr° l minute d • a 1 1 -C r 'as; of t h e Joss sus . taineti on our 'side. w k.. bitants of Madrid, assisted bitlie regular teeops there. was obvious, however, upon the first view Oe otiop . 'l it Joss is computes! , at t 8,000 in - killed- add statem ent , r el ' ,s.,tVa ? si t f r# i r . t i ti e ,e edi the remaieder of their Army, consisting that it was wlisilly unleutided, Stat ed the battle to have taken 1 pastes on the 7Alre, . 1444000 men, was sum mounded, arid a capitulation ‘ 4 ,, hen it is ki e es e that the juottion of our : armies , . / as negotiating at the time the Courier left Madrid. did ttot take place for at least ten days -afterwards. - He brought Jarilera for the Armies of the Marquis It appeared, however, by the ,following Bulletin, Da L4,-RostAtct -3. and General Moot t r, t o a dva nce which was issued by GOvertunent l ih4 pule skir- with all possible expedition,, mislies had taken place, which Probably . led to the The fury with ,which the Madrilittos (or people ttportof a. battle having been futr, , ,ht. - of Madrid) foiight, is represented as uttparallelhA. " I:ht,P4ilig..Street, An.. 2, 1809..,ei? They were led on',by the Nlarquis.de CASTELAARI . ff Letters of t h e 30th December, dated Toroi)lls4 • and Generals CUEST Dil A and attee. ye ti receives! from LietiteO3OL*Getieral Sititki,i Nay is said to have corntuaeded the French, Al f ,. cia lts , who was ilea forming his • junaiotgii : , According to a letter float Salamanea,_ the less of Ott I) 4e , u) l imp, and was ,n , atch i, ls with th e I mpp ,, the French was still greater, It is asserted that MAILS. AltajVlD— , l Cerunna, I Dublin. Din - s Uubliit, 5 WAtertou.l. 4 • PR4Cg OF STOCKS i con , . 1. ,,#, : ", 043fr . . 4 4 2,.trmy g o'cLucn.. " r " • • Red. Ann. - . . `'T SUN. . . SOLIM W 11• DlCtit% PAI,SUM AUDIAT? tine tylic of Sotnri , lerra, they lost got/amen t A La l'u?.sta de Santa Barbzira twelve thousand ; and at La- PoNta de Aleala tiev6n Iltutisan4.— . (The former is fifteen leaitnes flom M,tdrie.) The, .ren,tinder had tit!ien shcitt!r; 'some at El lictiro, others - at El Nada, others - at the Escurini. At ti.c for. mer place . ll,ley were•negQcii,ting acapitulation with the Illaritis.tle ,CASTELA A It. ThisLettersnys, they were 0f .. . - thigntlecl by 1,111 , 08V11 R (Duke of D.intzic) , fiand h:itlidwin the baitle,4 some persons of rank. rive tine:mind troop; of Sir JOHN J. Moorti's army left-s.ll=nilanc.l the. Bth for VallaOnlid, by 7 the route cat Alaeidci, and on the following daY 0 - 000 more, by the way ofTord. , I Such the substance of the reports we have here, but the trutlfol them is certainly very doubtful. • It ;- - t ; is-now nine 'dart since the result of the business, and still we hive no direct accounts froth Madrid, though couriers have repe:Ltedly come from thence in little mare than half the time ;:the news is said to have cutpe direst to Sir JOHN Moottr, at Sala manca with the latter place the communication from Corwma free and unmolested, and therefore a courier might have come (lire& hither &so. CortoNNA, p.t.--- : -Three Couriers .i.ave rived, this mfr:ling, one of them an Engli , b Cabinet Messenger., frOM.the Head-quarters of at Benevento,. which place he left oh the 17th, 21 . 1 d on the (aint day met with General Mooec i at Allijos ; the tivo-armies were within i? 4 hours march of each other, and in the highest SPii i!s. The loth Regiment of Soglish Cavalry, befunging to the army from Portug4 i 'had had'severAi reneotitres with the enemy, in , which they were ni,ys successfulr—on one occasion they brought n REitirisoners, and on the following day 3G, besides horses. Nothing certain was known at Read-quarters re 7. lathe to'the situation of Madrid, but it was gener ally supposed that the French had' obtained posses sion 01 it , after sustaining .considerable loss. Thi Gun Brig At rived, this 'Morning: from England, with a Messenger and Dispatches for the British. Ambassador. Vwo, DEC. 18.—The Encounter GUn Brig ar rived here list night, from Plymouth, after a pas sago of five days, with Dipatches for Sir DAVID LAI UM • The ftillowins ships compose the sqnadron now lying here, hale dt., Paris, liaffieur, tiaoq, , fin plactitte, and of the Line, .4:nrlymipn, hems", Cogack, and PallioVrisates, and Jknne Cita- yenne Sloop. UPOlti'o, 14.—Sir ROBRRT WILSONT ) With • his Legion, is now marching oat to join the .4rrny in paitt, tind will be followed by the Portu. gnese troops, COItUNNA; Dltc, 23.—A report is in circulation of an anion kwing been 194)1 near Valladoltd, between a division 01 the British army, and a corps of the enemy, in which the latter were defeated probably however it is only a repetition of the news received tht day before yesterday re,speeting the liith'Dragoons. The Central Junta is said to have removed frum Truxillo to Puerta Santa Maria, near • Cadi • It is somewhat Itlic - roos to find the Chief Organ of Opposition patifetically addressing -Ministers, and . coftjurieg them, to. awaken frotn that tor— por'which' hai too long• benumbed their faculties, both of decision and of aCtion," in relation to the atlsirs„.of Spain.. Such an appeal might very properly have been addressed to All the Talents, when they were in office, 'as eithe i r torpor ()r• incer: intik tuarked all their tneasuro, except, indded, as to the mischievous. aaivity , which they displayed in bringing forward a subject which they could have - • • , little hope of carrying into_egeeution, "arid Which they urged with a zealous pertinacity, that in the end produced their downlall. It is absurd to charge Ministers: With torpor, as to the (aloof ,Spain Atld Portugal, since every possible exertion has noto-' riontly been made for the deliverance of both coun tri&t. Peirtuital is happily ree from her tyrannical Invaders,' and if a lamentable lealonsy had . 'not pre vented Spain fiom availing herself of the military co-operation of this Country, she .also would most probably, loud ere now, have driven the Enemy out of her touitories, But .Spain has wanted nothing which she demanded, that we conk! procure, and in stead of torpor, no department of Government, we believe, atany ,fornier period, ever manifested greater zeal, -promptitude, and aCtivity. The Writer al lutltd tb, proceeds to ask - Ministers--" what mOre would they liave,?—if it S our confidence, that, too, shill not be , vithltolden, if 'they will only deserve it."—This:would, doubtless, be a very flattering pro inke to Niinisters ;, who tvould, of course, be highly ; • gratified,. and piond of the lio nottr of having the co:,ti ; lenee. of the _ , Opposition Writers; but, fin. tine inekka ao if in their promise, t"n we . fe.a, that'in older to evade that pioloise, they will never he broo z ::ht to-achiiit that iit tart have desetved so s ' a=t' honour as the coutidenee of Writept who have hitherto condemned every ittoentent of the presetit Administration, hoWtter 806 , 14K:tory their ,Tri.•:iittre l:!ave been to ti e Nation at lar•e. • , . lV AVAL E I ,V S. 1 - 011TV:SIOUTIT Ship Challengvr, C. c'v% with ahoilt Six Soil of 1'r4.11" , :1.A..1-;,. the ; tlk.! Prita . rwe r.:l 3. 'AKIN, 1,r).:; 01.! CuAst of Spain ; r. , tr.) !1 Cadiz fur Lonci..q,, .~..,:.. DE,ar,, Inc--- .\NI Ij.:11v . si .; TrOMIVISC, Kanguroo, Peruvian, anJ :;10nzarz, flom aci wze. Iteml.in in the Downs with the shipi pt.r I ht. SAE P.RN nss, 31.-1 - Us Ntile4y's Ship 4111- . e;:;t under way,' 'but tl,r Vicoti;vr Catth.t 0:1 so thick she wits ovi?Willti(>:.--e-mo too aglin, awl RI.. periled the sigilMAiiith'..i.--#4'611-blig a:s l .tort: da Warp. JAN. t ~—Arrived Giko-'brig'Pincher, the syth;sel that was ;40rit.M.071 the \Vary, 10!vi of het rtidder. . . . Came into hino-t.ii . 'tl4'notiiNiti Sime-ship, being too hate in the st:Aion foßiler to .gti-t6the ‘,L • On Sunday aiming, about ei4itt ei'elnek,• Rriyal Highness the Doke Of YOUR' lvft tun in hil travelling carriage,- for.Wituisor. I lis, Royal Efi L ;l l . tress took with hitn the voluminous proceedingi and - Report of the Court of EfulOtty, , tipon the C;inven. tion - olCintra,, Roynt Highness nrriveJ et Windt sor soon after ten o'clock, In g short -time, after 16,4 ' Itor liighness.hud an ii;klrVivAt , Ills MAitttii.i., • Ty, and laird' t h Proecedin„s and Repott'. ht.ture' ffii proctitqkd tO rod and continued tg. do so:- doting: th e wi do t, tt o! . r !, 1 „ day, cxi•ept • cif his ditiller-tirne, at him o'clock, the dining hour of. her M.i.3 ry and the PAINCItSSV:S, ie I,vu Itiy itn y al dined with thetn. MAJE,sTY informed the Duke hey liol.J• sirler of the business till Sunday, and desned Royal Hip,htlf.ss to attend !inn on tiV:lt day, it ter-, lag his Royal Highoess!s-intemiOn too to:Uallil,2i that night. ' The QAJE*l.otdesited hint to bring t!i_!. Duchess with hitn. - -'oo(Sunday Morning tfieir Royal Higithessv 4 `t4triv , ftivtt Windsor, fron) 0 it lands ; their Royal HighliWss'es having invited a large party to diniier ., .oti 144atir clay, in cony.-querie:e of being their Royal Purents wish lOsee the:n at Wind. sor, anpOinted Lady .SMITH, and (ink, Ins Royal Highnesses Aides-dtt-Cainp, to preside at the tabll, to entertain their gueSts. At fOur &cinch-. the-Royal Kimily sat down dinner, and his MAaRSTY, in coriipliment te) Duchess of Yottx,ysitt, : at table the whole time, at though he had previoui}y dined about one 0'064. His MAJESTY pattock : of.lhe ciinfOliunaft, desecc and wines, and, we have.great pleasure hay tilg, he appeared in most eAcellent health ant? spirits. There were present, besides their MAJESTIES, the and Ducluetcof.Yolm, PiltNcvssrs, and the Dukes of CUMBERLAND and CAMBRIDGE. Yesterday Lord CAstt.supAGn transacted busi ness with the Duke of Yuan, :it 11 . 40ilice, at the Iforse Guards. Luv,l•Amn:lnsr will embark on boa ‘ tla m frise ills cmb.tsiy to Sioly, tlic; (if Lady AmnEusr, :thcl bte scw,t) 'child/4u, .aeci.un. .Ardo 110 Extraet,of a Letter' from ALtdrid :--When NAPA“TH addressed •MOR LA, as rtpresented in tilt Frer,ch Bulletin, the latter never once changed Lint countenattee,; but as soon as the exhortation sv,is MQItLA replied in a most manly tone - of snioble to his dignity, " I am a Spaniard, and alp. hostile to the usurpation of Frenchmen and Italian's-1 came not here to receive. your proaehes ;--1 ftase done. my duty as a man, an.l a sol(ticr, to my Kinglrnd.couatry—rny life r set at nought ; but, ‘vtriistt - 1, live, I shall persevere in trey conduct, and which .1: citem both just and nnnenr. at)itt,!, , I J 'the embailiail*!4o troopg ig pin; on, The Cold•areain 311a . 'Sit Guards sailed on Sunday night from the The 87th and : ; 48th lik-Ti m p o t ii sailed on Saturday. Five thouqll) , .l 1,11(.11 %'li'dl bt:i:',u-, txtrked'thi's week--they will two rel;iiilo,ot; of 04alry, , . By a private Fetter from Stockholm, we leorr , , that an Arp . iaki,cti t ihtuk. been concluded bet . ! v, L.ll Sweden 'arid`pthnun4 6 ,which, it was stip4te::, should net be Y,:w4eit . itv..f.zithtr party, r.it t ing, i 4 days • The Spanish Qet , triAlinturo I.)n, ST. Ju4N,`has bean hangt.d at Talaveta, by the .troops he com manded, having.twen di3covered 4) he hi t+pondence, with the enemy. On the, rope being put round his neck, he, confessed that sevi,lt of - 11... r Officers of rank in the Spanish , Army weed Lutt cerned. • . A Letter from, Cortmna, dated the :mil) 1111. cot-- tains the following postm;ript:--" tbln .7 , r Dragoons has sent in 300 Frendt rca‘alry, and ithi is the first skirmish." LORD GAUDNER..---WR are sorry that we base to record the death of this gallant Veteran,. who cer. wilily was - to be considered as tine tit the ornament.; of t hi. British Navy. 1-ic died at Bath' on Sinulay last tie was born at 1,/ttoxeter, in Siatforthhiri, and was in his (36th-year. Ills father a Li, toe mint Colonel in the. mit Regiinent cif Dragotrtk, Guards., and a natite of Coler,iine, in the North of ireland. Lord GA iIDN tt COtlirneliCed ilk Naval career 01) the Ist of M.ay, 175:1, ho,ird tht. A/;,(» way, 'lir 60 guns, commanded by C:tiLiin PryKtat DIINNIS ; he was in that Shiy-in 17,57, •tvLen, company with tin* it they took the Lhie of 60. gints.,, Ott the 7th of Much, he was advaucts to ;a Litifitehanr, and ay - pointed to the bellona, of, 74 milk; he was afterwards in ntite gimwus 'lltrof which he drsyl,tyed soeh courage,'skill i 4a4Linognaniinity, as were rewarded ultimately by his Soyeeeign, with.the appointment of Admirai, of the Blue, MAjor-General of the Ma, rine3, created a Baron of the Uni:td Kingdottr,, - ,llnd bid the honour of receivil?, otter) the mtnd of hi 4 ntjesty a gold chain, in approbnt ion Q t.' f t ;s condo, can the.29th of . , Allay and Ist j , ,irteo, 1 Married, the It.ear_t76), Miss Hun, „ii , m,(ti. and has left hef Ladyship, w fib sun- a "b ' a I cry nurnit'6l,l4 ) ttatiTY' inchid'r'r two sons it: To-day the Lora) MAYOR or:leted the price .of Bread tk) t continuetriklatt LONDON, tUESDA.4) JANUARY 3, 11309. IG